Archive woman and music

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Archive woman and music

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Archive type Music archive
Coordinates 50 ° 5 '32.1 "  N , 8 ° 39' 1.3"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '32.1 "  N , 8 ° 39' 1.3"  E
place Frankfurt am Main
Visitor address Heinrich-Hoffmann-Strasse 3, 60528 Frankfurt am Main
founding 1979
scope 23,000 media units
ISIL DE-Ks15
Website www.archiv-frau-musik.de

The Woman and Music Archive is an international music archive based in Frankfurt am Main . It is the world's largest and most important archive of music by women composers and was founded in Cologne in 1979 on the initiative of the conductor Elke Mascha Blankenburg .

This music archive is home to the International Working Group on Women and Music and is funded by the City of Frankfurt and the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art . The magazine VivaVoce was the only German-language specialist publication until 2015, which appeared regularly two to three times a year. In October 2013, the specialist archive was included in the Red List of Culture of the German Cultural Council and classified in Category 2 as endangered , because the City of Frankfurt has stopped its previous financial support since January 2014.

See also the article Women in Music .

history

Based on an article by the conductor Elke Mascha Blankenburg about forgotten female composers in the magazine Emma at the end of the 1970s, musicians from many parts of the world met to found a working group . They set themselves the task of finding forgotten compositions by women and bringing them back to performance. The initiative already had 100 members in October 1979. In addition to Elke Blankenburg, the founding board also included composers Barbara Heller and Siegrid Ernst .

Research by the working group in international music libraries revealed the names and works of over 300 female composers within a year. This was the basis for the foundation of the “Woman and Music” archive. The association and the archive moved from Cologne to Kassel in 1988 , and finally moved to Frankfurt in 2001.

The archive has been a member of the ida umbrella association of German-speaking women / lesbian archives since October 2013 . Mary Ellen Kitchens (conductor, musicologist, director of radio archives BR), Vera Lasch and Vivienne Olive (composer) are the directors of the International Working Group on Women and Music , which is responsible for the archive .

Prizes and awards

  • Culture Prize of the City of Kassel 1994
  • Sponsorship award from the Dr. Wolfgang Zippel Foundation 1996
  • Award of the Dierichs Foundation Kassel 1999

Projects

Duration

Archive Woman and Music Frankfurt am Main - Interiors

The archive's holdings include around 23,000 media items: compositions and artistic legacies by musicians, newspaper articles, brochures, secondary literature, images and sound carriers, as well as specialist works on musicians and composers. The archive was able to take over the estates of Felicitas Kukuck (1914–2001) and Silvia Leonor Alvarez de la Fuente (1953–2004) , among others . The estates of Elke Mascha Blankenburg (1943–2013) and Leni Alexander (1924–2005) have also been on site since 2015 . Numerous active composers such as Violeta Dinescu and Tsippi Fleischer are already bringing their works to the Archive of Women and Music. In 2001 the extensive collection of the Munich association musica femina münchen - the Munich Composers' Archive - was donated to the Archive of Women and Music. The Frankfurt archive also has an extensive fund of first prints and handwritten letters from Clara Schumann and a postcard collection of ladies' brass orchestras from around 1900, which is unique in the world. The holdings of classical compositions are supplemented by a special collection on rock, pop, jazz, chanson and world music. In total, the archive includes works by over 1,800 international female composers from the 9th to the 21st century.

See also

  • Juan Martin Koch: Urgent questions backed up with facts. Heike Matthiesen talks about 40 years of archive woman and music In: nmz - neue musikzeitung (= nmz - neue musikzeitung. Issue 4). ConBrio Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 2019, ISSN  0944-8136 , p. 19. ( online )

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